parempi lehmä lypsää kuin tappaa

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Finnish

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Proverb

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parempi lehmä lypsää kuin tappaa (literally, “it is better to milk a cow than to kill it”)

  1. it is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them
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